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| I'd like to draw list members' attention to the following PS-sponsored Topical Session held at the Geological Society of America annual meeting in Philadelphia 22-25 October 2006. Abstract deadline is 11 July. If you have research results that are appropriate to the the description below, please consider submitting an abstract. Topical Session T113: Applied Reef Coral Paleoecology Topic: Application of paleoecological studies of fossil coral reefs to sedimentologic and ecologic problems. Possible Subject Areas to be Included: a) Response of reef coral communities to climate change. b) Comparative taphonomy and sedimentology of fossil reef coral assemblages. c) Taphonomic approaches to discriminating between reef subfacies. d) Paleoecological evidence for rapid (sub-orbital scale) fluctuations in sea level. e) Mechanics of the radiation of the modern reef coral fauna. Rationale: Studies of Tertiary and Quaternary reef coral communities have increasingly been applied to issues related to the modern reef system. Reef coral assemblages from these time intervals are often remarkably preserved; hence paleoecological studies that reveal their long-term ecological dynamics are especially robust. A fuller understanding of the response of reef coral communities to changes in climate, ocean circulation patterns and origination and extinction events is beginning to emerge from recent paleoecologic, sedimentologic and taphonomic research. The goal of the session is bring workers in these and related fields together to share their results and discuss how they may be used to predict responses of modern reef communities to the spectrum of disturbances observed today. Format: Oral ********************************** Benjamin J. Greenstein Ph.D. Professor of Geology Cornell College 600 First St. West Mt. Vernon, IA 52314 USA PH: 319-895-4307 FAX: 319-895-5667 WEB: http://www.cornellcollege.edu/geology/greenstein |
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